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BOHEMIAN HALL AND BEER GARDEN -- 29-19 24th Ave., between 29th and 31st Sts., Astoria (718-274-4925)--Five centuries ago, German brewers began planting trees in their yards to keep the beer cellars below them cool in the summer. Before long, people realized that it would be pleasant to sit under these trees and drink the beer. Eureka: the beer garden. At one point, there were hundreds of beer gardens in New York. Now, there is really only one, in Astoria. (Other contenders, small and mostly treeless, aren't in the same league.) Tended since its opening, in 1919, by the Bohemian Hall, an adjacent civic center of sorts for the Czechs and Slovaks who dominated the neighborhood in those days, the garden can seem, once you've had a mug or two and surveyed the polyglot throng, to represent the pinnacle of urban living: variegation meets fermentation.
The garden is connected to a warren of barrooms and dining nooks; this labyrinthine layout can exacerbate the beer's more deleterious effects. The garden itself, however, is easily navigable: an acre of picnic tables, enclosed by stucco walls and shaded by maples and lindens. It accommodates several hundred ...
- Bohemian Hall may be completed next year - Paroubek.
- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire September 16, 2005 700+ words
...NEW YORK, Sept 16 (CTK) - The reconstruction of the Bohemian Hall, the Czech national building, may be completed by the...imagine that the New Year 2007 could be celebrated in the Bohemian Hall. ($1=23.962 crowns) pv/dr/kva
- Stuck in NYC Airports during Holiday Rush? Make the Most of It.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 9, 2006 700+ words
...affordable restaurants, a historic German beer garden, Satchmo's home, public golf courses and kid...Greek cafes and fish restaurants, and the historic Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden. JFK travelers can hop over to Mama's Latticeria...
- EDITORIAL: Smooth Sailing.(Editorial)
- News wire article from: Richmond Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA) September 5, 2007 700+ words
...transferred to the subway (elevated at Astoria Boulevard, a good stop to remember; it's the one for Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden), and arrived safe and sound in Midtown. After lunch at a SoHo oyster bar, he checked into his hotel across...
- Queens: A Tasty Slice of the Big Apple, Says Author of New Guide.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire October 26, 2006 700+ words
...Freudenheim. "Everyone does." The public is invited to a Halloween Book Party, Oct. 29, 5-8 PM, Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden, Astoria. CONTACT: Jesse George, +1-917-826-4099 Web site: http://www.queensguidebook...
- Oban pub gets beer garden on trial.
- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire March 8, 2007 700+ words
...Journal (UK)) An Oban pub's new beer garden/smoking area is to be monitored for...refused planning permission for the beer garden by Argyll and Bute Council, who feared...s decision last year, to allow the beer garden to operate for a trial period with restricted...
- Enterasys Networks Continues Mobility Innovation Through Debut of World's First...
- Press release article from: Business Wire July 31, 2001 700+ words
...announced that the first Bavarian Internet beer garden will open its doors on July 31, 2001...Networks, Waldwirtschaft Grosshesselohe beer garden and Radio Relax fm, visitors can enjoy...explains: "An Internet connection in a beer garden is, of course, an unusual example...
- Fair beer garden foes remain vocal.
- News wire article from: Columbian (Vancouver, WA) August 14, 2007 700+ words
...Michael Andersen Aug. 14--A new beer garden at the 2007 Clark County Fair led to...Hard Lemonade -- provided much of the beer garden's revenue. Lucas said there is a...that the county might prevent a 2008 beer garden by amending the fairgrounds' liquor...
- Asian students open beer garden at hotel.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire July 10, 2005 700+ words
...Daily Yomiuri) Asian students open beer garden at hotel Yomiuri Asian students opened a beer garden in Beppu, Oita Prefecture, earlier...from beginning to end. The staff at the beer garden wear traditional costumes from their...
- Beer garden opening hours extension?
- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire November 19, 2008 700+ words
...allowed to extend the opening hours of its beer garden because smokers are spilling on to the street. After the Cross Keys Hotel's beer garden shuts at 9.30pm, smokers are spilling...Brooks has now applied to extend his beer garden hours to 1am on weekdays and 2.30am...
- CASEBOOK: Beer garden ruled not to trigger a change of use.
- Magazine article from: Planning (UK) April 4, 2003 700+ words
...public house in Buckinghamshire as a beer garden has been quashed after an inspector...1977), the council claimed that the beer garden had intensified the use to such a degree...allied to a public house, such as a beer garden, did not amount to development requiring...
